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- A doutrina da guerra nas crónicas portuguesas dos séculos XIV e XVPublication . Antunes, Luísa Maria Soeiro Marinho
- Literatura e literatos: questões e contornos da literatura produzida na Madeira e sobre a MadeiraPublication . Antunes, Luísa Marinho
- Visões críticas do "nós": o jogo divertido da imagem nacionalPublication . Antunes, Luísa MarinhoThis paper aims at studying the characteristics of humour in Literatures in Portuguese, in tales, short narratives and novels, so as to uncover the traits of a Portuguese humoristic tradition of its own. The texts under scope have in common the problematic of the national profile approached in a humoristic way. The current analysis draws on a corpus of Portuguese texts by João Ubaldo Ribeiro (Brazil), Pepetela, (Angola), and Germano de Almeida (Cape Verde). The authors follow the Portuguese Literature tradition of using humour as a cognitive and ontological instrument, as a privileged form of knowing the individual and the collective community to which they belong. Through the creation of various narrative situations, which depict the encounter between national characters and foreigners (a football game, in the case of the Brazilian text; a criminal investigation involving agents from Angola and the FBI, in Pepetela’s novel; the return from the United States of a Cape Verdean immigrant and his attempts to modernize his homeland in the American way), the novelists reflect upon their identity using a satirical perspective. Alterity fosters the mirror in which the “one” watching the “other” (most times making the foreigner look ridicule and less cunning than himself) acknowledges his own national characteristics and situation in the world. Humour is the possibility of finding the inner voice “us” and opens up the way to change through laughter.
- A construção da memória cultural por meio da literatura: alguns aspectosPublication . Antunes, Luísa Marinho
- L’ agente segreto: Pepetela e la falsa non-importanza dei nomiPublication . Bazenga, Aline; Antunes, Luísa Marinho
- O romance histórico e José de AlencarPublication . Paolinelli, Luísa Marinho Antunes
- I nomi dei personaggi indigeni nel romanzo storico indianista di José de AlencarPublication . Antunes, Luísa MarinhoIn Brazil, during the XIX century, the historical romance is part of a generational program that aims to the creation of the Brazilian literature, unique and independent from the Portuguese literature, and profoundly linked to the people, seen by the intellectuals as a new race born in the tropics. José de Alencar unites effectively in his books the historical with the literary and esthetical movements of “indianism” and “nativism”, picturing the encounter of the Portuguese and the Indian as the mythical birth of the Brazilian. The names the author gives his Indian characters testify not only his will to capture the peculiar relationship of the Indians with the edenic nature, through the creation of names that function as true images, but also the anthropological and linguistic knowledge of a culture seen as being at the same level as the European. The Indian names tell also the story of the suffering and annihilation of the race and the birth of a new one.